Event Calendar
Hear talks by Stanford faculty and graduate students on all things Darwin:
3:00 Welcome
3:05 Jessica Riskin, Professor of History
Darwin Between the Machines, on Darwin’s struggles with Lamarck and natural theology in creating his theory
3:30 Jonathan Payne, Professor of Paleobiology
The Role of Extinction in Evolution, on how mass extinctions alter patterns of macroevolution
3:55 Greg Priest, Graduate student in History
Darwin among the Zoophytes, on how Darwin’s researches into marine invertebrates influenced his evolutionary thought
4:20 Break
4:35 Introducing Greg Brown’s Missa Charles Darwin, with a libretto based on Darwin’s writings and a score composed on evolutionary principles
4:40 Katherine Preston, Associate Director of the Program in Human Biology
Darwin on Your Plate, on how understanding evolutionary relationships help us appreciate our food
5:05 Lynn Rothschild, NASA and Stanford astrobiologist
Replaying the Tape, on whether evolution is a predictive science
5:30 Bradford Harris, Graduate student in History
Survival of the Friendliest, on symbiogenesis and the emergence of evolutionary complexity
6:00 Darwin's birthday party (in Old Union 301)
Free and open to all